Forest City Realty Trust (Forest City Realty Trust) Return-on-Tangible-Equity : 46.16% (As of Sep. 2018)

Forest City Realty Trust Return-on-Tangible-Equity Chart

Forest City Realty Trust Annual Data
	Trend	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17
Return-on-Tangible-Equity		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.65	-0.51	20.19	-4.90	6.37

Forest City Realty Trust Quarterly Data
	Oct13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17	Sep17	Dec17	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18
Return-on-Tangible-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.65	12.33	23.15	7.62	46.16

Competitive Comparison of Forest City Realty Trust's Return-on-Tangible-Equity

For the REIT - Retail subindustry, Forest City Realty Trust's Return-on-Tangible-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Return-on-Tangible-Equity data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Forest City Realty Trust's Return-on-Tangible-Equity Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Forest City Realty Trust's Return-on-Tangible-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Forest City Realty Trust's Return-on-Tangible-Equity falls into.

Forest City Realty Trust Return-on-Tangible-Equity Calculation

Forest City Realty Trust's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as

Forest City Realty Trust's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Return-on-Tangible-Equity, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder tangible equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data, the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Sep. 2018) net income data. Return-on-Tangible-Equity is displayed in the 10-year financial page.

Forest City Realty Trust  (NYSE:FCE.B) Return-on-Tangible-Equity Explanation

Return-on-Tangible-Equity measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's tangible equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' tangible equity (shareholders equity minus intangibles). Return-on-Tangible-Equity shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. Return-on-Tangible-Equitys between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.

Be Aware

Net Income is used.

Because a company can increase its Return-on-Tangible-Equity by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high Return-on-Tangible-Equity companies. Like Return-on-Tangible-Asset, Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.

Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their Return-on-Tangible-Equitys can be extremely high.

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